Principal Cybersecurity Engineer – Identity & Access Management

Progress

Principal Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in IAM at Progress. Overseeing identity security governance and architecture to propel business forward.

Posted 5/28/2026full-time🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the enterprise IAM governance and architecture strategy
Define multi-year IAM roadmap aligned to Zero Trust and business priorities
Influence funding, prioritization, and sequencing of IAM initiatives
Represent identity risk and posture to senior leadership and governance forums
Establish enterprise identity reference architectures and guardrails
Act as final design authority for identity integrations and access models
Define authentication, authorization, and privilege models across platforms
Ensure consistency across workforce, application, and privileged identities
Guide adoption of password-less, JIT access, and adaptive authentication
Define enterprise IAM policies, standards, and control frameworks
Oversee access governance methodologies (reviews, certifications, exceptions)
Establish IAM risk metrics and maturity assessments
Drive remediation of systemic identity risks
Provide executive-level support for audits and regulatory inquiries
Partner with IT, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams
Influence identity operating models without direct operational ownership
Lead working groups and design councils related to identity
Evaluate IAM, IGA, and PAM technologies from a strategic perspective
Define success criteria for IAM tooling and integrations
Stay current with identity threat trends and evolving best practices

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Information Security/Assurance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
6-8 years of experience in cybersecurity, identity security, or security engineering
Deep expertise in IAM governance, architecture, and risk management
Proven experience leading enterprise-scale IAM initiatives
Strong understanding of zero trust identity architectures, RBAC / ABAC and role governance, privileged access governance and admin models, and Identity lifecycle / access assurance
Experience influencing architecture and security outcomes across large organizations
Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills
Experience operating as a principal, lead architect, or enterprise security architect (beneficial)
Identity platform experience across multiple vendors (Entra ID, Okta, SailPoint, CyberArk, etc.) (beneficial)
Experience in regulated or complex enterprise environments (beneficial)
Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, or identity-focused credentials (beneficial)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive remuneration package
Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrolment
30 days of earned leave
An extra day off for your birthday
Various other leaves like marriage leave, casual leave, maternity, and paternity leave
Premium Group Medical Insurance for employees and five dependents
Personal accident insurance coverage
Life insurance coverage
Professional development reimbursement
Interest subsidy on loans - either vehicle or personal loans
Health club reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

IAM governanceIAM architecturerisk managementzero trust identity architecturesRBACABACprivileged access governanceidentity lifecycleaccess assuranceidentity integrations

Soft Skills

executive communicationstakeholder managementinfluencingleadershipcollaboration

Certifications

CISSPCCSPSABSA